Definition of Ephemeras

1. ephemera [n] - See also: ephemera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephemeras

ephemera
ephemerae
ephemeral
ephemeral fever
ephemeral fever of cattle
ephemeral fever virus
ephemeral lake
ephemeral lakes
ephemeralities
ephemerality
ephemerally
ephemeralness
ephemerals
ephemeran
ephemerans
ephemeras (current term)
ephemeric
ephemerid
ephemeride
ephemerides
ephemerids
ephemeris
ephemeris time
ephemerises
ephemerist
ephemerists
ephemeron
ephemerons
ephemeropteran
ephemerous

Literary usage of Ephemeras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature ...: With Numerous Notes from the by Oliver Goldsmith (1857)
"All ephemeras, of which there are various so often seen as the males, whose only occupation is to sport in the air, in the neighbourhood of the cradle of ..."

2. The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq.: With Memoirs of His Life and by Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd Sheffield (1837)
"ephemeras the Messenian advanced this paradox. || But far from appealing to the authentic monuments of Greece and Egypt, which ought to have preserved the ..."

3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"Our present race of ephemeras will in a course of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and consequently as wretched. ..."

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